Jess’ E-Learning Blog

Today I’ve tried to finish both my storyboard and my screencaps for the final assignment, but I’ve had trouble figuring out the parameters of each of them. I’ve always looked at it as the storyboard is the process which the learner has to go through to accomplish the specified learning objectives. As in, first there’s pre-course training, then there’s a quiz to determine prior learning, which then tells learners if they need to participate in mod 1or wait for mod 2 or 3, etc.

But while the platform is designed to house the learning program, it has bits and pieces which are not reliant on the course. For instance, there is an area where learners can change their settings, such as background colours, patterns, headers, etc, if they want to explore and develop their technology skills. This has been incorporated as a way of facilitating development in a humanistic way and is in no way related to the course ’Understanding the Impact of Drugs and Alcohol’. So, my dilema is; if I am supposed to ‘imply’ the platform, does that mean that I have to put the settings page and the home page and things like that in the storyboard? And if I do that, then I’m not really storyboarding the program, I’m storyboarding the platform, so do I put things like ‘face to face interaction’ or ‘webinar’ in the storyboard as well?

I think I’m still a little bit confused. If we had been shown a completed ‘real’ storyboard or design or something, instead of the really basic, no-content ones we were shown at the beginning of module two, then I think I might have a better idea of what the storyboard is supposed to look like.